It's about to start, so I thought we should have a thread. Will Cadel repeat his title now that he's back on home turf? Who else has the chops? Should be a good'un! Coverage HERE
And Taylor Phinney takes the U23 TT bands!!! http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/uci-road-world-championships-cm/under-23-men/results The 2010 world championships opened in Geelong, Australia with the Under-23 men's time trial, and a close battle between the highly-fancied Taylor Phinney USA) and local favourite Luke Durbridge. Phinney took the title by a scant 1.90 seconds over Durbridge, with Marcel Kittel (Germany) finishing third.
Elite Women TT 1 Emma Pooley (Great Britain) 0:32:48.44 2 Judith Arndt (Germany) 0:33:03.61 3 Linda Melanie Villumsen (New Zealand) 0:33:04.24 4 Amber Neben (United States Of America) 0:33:26.10 5 Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli (France) 0:33:32.38 6 Evelyn Stevens (United States Of America) 0:33:48.52 7 Tara Whitten (Canada) 0:33:54.35 8 Shara Gillow (Australia) 0:34:01.62 9 Emilia Fahlin (Sweden) 0:34:10.64 10 Tatiana Guderzo (Italy) 0:34:13.99
Emilia Fahlin I know, I know. Shallow. There are more interesting pictures out there too, but I thought I'd keep it sane here.
Spartacus wins his 4th 1 Fabian Cancellara (Switzerland) 0:58:09 2 David Millar (Great Britain) 0:59:11 3 Tony Martin (Germany) 0:59:21 4 Richie Porte (Australia) 0:59:28 5 Michael Rogers (Australia) 1:00:34 6 Koos Moerenhout (Netherlands) 1:00:49 7 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil (Spain) 1:00:53 8 David Zabriskie (United States Of America) 1:01:00 9 Maciej Bodnar (Poland) 1:01:09 10 Gustav Larsson (Sweden) 1:01:10
Did anyone read about her in a recent Bicycling magazine. Good quick read. In this day and age for an athlete to come out of nowhere in a short time is a rarity.
Yeah, that was quite a story. Hard to imagine that happening these days, you're right. Solid athlete.
Congrats to Michael Matthews (Australia)! Wins the gold for the U23 road race. 1 Michael Matthews (Australia) 4:01:23 2 John Degenkolb (Germany) 3 Taylor Phinney (United States Of America)
Apparently Phinney and Guillaume Boivin (Canada) were tied at the line for 3rd. First tie ever, I'm hearing. Look at this finish!!!
Women's Elite RR 1 Giorgia Bronzini (Italy) 3:32:01 2 Marianne Vos (Netherlands) 3 Emma Johansson (Sweden) 4 Nicole Cooke (Great Britain) 5 Judith Arndt (Germany) 0:00:01 6 Grace Verbeke (Belgium) 0:00:03 7 Trixi Worrack (Germany) 8 Rasa Leleivyte (Lithuania) 9 Elizabeth Armitstead (Great Britain) 10 Carla Swart (South Africa)
THOR! 1 Thor Hushovd (Norway) 6:21:49 2 Matti Breschel (Denmark) 3 Allan Davis (Australia) 4 Filippo Pozzato (Italy) 5 Greg Van Avermaet (Belgium) 6 Oscar Freire Gomez (Spain) 7 Alexandr Kolobnev (Russian Federation) 8 Assan Bazayev (Kazakhstan) 9 Yukiya Arashiro (Japan) 10 Romain Feillu (France) 11 Grega Bole (Slovenia)
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2ry0dkObVg"]YouTube - WC Geelong Road Men Elite - Final lap (2)[/ame] Youtube tags seem to be off?